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Alright folks fair warning this is a bit of a spicy team but I have been using it to some pretty solid success on the ladder. We're rocking with some Camerupt/Jumpluff spikes offense here I know it sounds insane but the typings here have excellent synergy paired alongside spikes which this team...
i'm not saying it wouldn't be good, but it has plenty of downsides. with base 100 attacking stats and no real usable STAB means that it really has to set up to be truly threatening. weakness to spikes and sandstorm basically mean that it *has* to run some sort of recovery (which means it can't...
jirachi has a much better typing and similar usable movepool while also not getting hit by sandstorm. celebi probably has a worse typing but gets leech seed + recover + natural cure. both have the same bulk and are hardly oppressive in the ADV meta. it would function similarly to those two, no?
The difference is that you need to actually use a speed boosting move in order to be in that position. If you click EQ against a Jolteon when it goes for agility, the agility is a moot point because that Jolteon is dead. Ninjask, conversely, can click sub or protect on your rock slide *while*...
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but why not just ban Ninjask (or speed boost which obviously is basically the same thing)? What viability/niche does it have other than starting these BP chains?
If speed boost is gone then really 99% of the cheese/troll factor is eliminated...
Was thinking about good mons to pair with moltres + spikes and had the idea that maybe jumpluff could actually work kind of well alongside him so just built a joke team for shits n gigs and went a solid like 18-3 on ladder this morning. Its not the most groundbreaking team in the world but it’s...
Mean Look Umbreon is not broken at all lol, the situation you just described is extremely easy to get out of. Let's walk through it:
If Vaporeon's first attack is Sand Attack and you Roar on the BP to Umbreon and miss (which BTW won't have BrightPowder presumably...), you still have plenty of...
It's meant to be a facilitator on offense, spreading para/chip damage and booming once it's gotten that job done. Few mons have access to t-wave plus explosion plus literally the best speed in the game. These calcs literally are completely meaningless without context. Half of those things are...
I feel like Electrode has some sort of niche that, at the very least, make it more viable than mostly everything C2 and lower. The offensive presence of STAB thunder even with Electrode's mediocre sp. atk mean that it can kind of reliably spread damage/status (HP water is pretty useful for the...
Hi Vapicuno, do you think I got lucky on this victory? I thought I played it pretty well considering my team was 100% built by me and also I have no idea what I'm doing
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen3ou-1203443833
Based off the posts I've seen on here and the fact that you run into that demon almost every other game, I don't see how there's any way this thing doesn't get banned. I'll never get reqs but like.. the only posters who have made an argument to keep it unbanned are either seemingly missing the...